Recent content by chris857

Hi guys. I always hear this certain effect on so many different albums and was wondering how it was done. For example, this effect can be heard on the Blink 182 album, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, at the transition from track 9 to track 10. The track fades out then fades in and they add some...

Thanks for the info. That helps me out a lot. I never realized cables were so complex!

I have a cable that looks exactly like a 1/4" TS cable, but it says "for speakers only" labeled on it. Will this work for connecting outboard gear to mixers, line outs to audio interfaces, etc? Will it effect the sound quality? What is the difference between a speaker cable and a TS cable or TRS...

still not working I clicked on Options->Audio Options->Drivers and lists the following: Input Drivers->ASIO Digidesign Driver Mbox Mic/Line 1 (which is selected) Output Drivers->ASIO Digidesign Driver MBox Analog/Digital 1 (also selected) When I create an Audio Track my Input Options are...

Hi guys. I use Sonar 3 Producer Edition and a Digi MBox as my audio interface. The MBox as two line outputs in the back, but when I go to choose an output for an audio track is only lists one output. I can record multiple inputs at the same time, but I would like to know how to create two output...

I know this is a basic question, but I am trying to figure out how to set up a click track with sonar 3. I use a digi MBox as my sound interface, and when I use the metronome built into Sonar it plays out of my pc speakers instead of out of the MBox. How do I make the metronome play out of the...

Okay, cool. Thanks a lot for the help guys. I really appreciate it!

If I used the line in as the input that would bypass the preamps, right? Why wouldn't it? The signal would already be amplified so it would need to go through them and it's not even from a mic so why would it use the mic pre-amps? Isn't the line in made for signals that are already amplified? If...

What do you mean it is quiet? You mean it doesn't produce a loud signal or there isn't a lot of interference? Also, what do you mean "pin them out" with reference to the knobs?

Hi guys. I was planning on getting the Digidesign MBox for my small project home studio to act as a analog / digital converter for Pro Tools LE. I noticed that the MBox has two mic preamps and TRS inserts as well. I don't need the preamps since I arleady have an anolog mixer. My question is, if...

How is that when I eq on Calkwalk using the parameter eq fuction and I lower a certain frequency on a track, it pops and clips at certain areas on the track. How is that even possible? If I lower the gain, wouldn't it not distort or clip?

If mixers have mic preamps already built in, then what's the purpose of a seperate pre-amp unit? Why do recording studios have them? Why not just use the one on the mixer?

What do you mean by destructively or non-destructively?

Sometimes when I add effects on certain tracks or eq, it starts to get distorted and make popping sounds. I assume it is doing this because it is clipping so I decrease the decibals of the track and it still clips...I decrease it again and it still clips..I even solo the track and lower the...

Would you guys recommend compressing a signal before it gets to the recording device(8-track or whatever) while you are recording, or compressing after you have already recorded it and are mixing, or both?